Re: HowTo: Compiz Fusion in Hardy on cards with "ati"/"radeon" open source drivers

Originally Posted by knight666

Hi,

Thanks for the advice in this thread, it really helped me out.
But I still have an annoying problem: I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with all the latest updates on a Compaq Evo N610c (1.8 Ghz Mobile Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 32 MB), and with some haxxing (manually installing xserver-xgl, changing xorg.conf, etc) I got Compiz working.
But, not entirely.
Scrolling is very slow in windows and even though glxgears says I have an fps of 35-45 (under Compiz) and 75-80 (under Metacity), the window looks extremely choppy.

When I open a menu under Compiz, there is a white bar next to the end of the alpha blend shadow.

Finally, this is the output of compiz:

Code:

Checking for Xgl: present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checkign for Xgl: present.
GConf backend: There is an unsupported value at path /apps/compiz/plugins/scale/allscreens/options/initiate_edge. Settings from this path won't be read. Try to remove the value so that operation can continue properly.

The option is set to its default value, "[]".

Help? <

OK, let's first uninstall xserver-xgl, I don't think you want that (I don't have it and I don't run laggy). Other people have complained in other threads about lag on all different types of cards and I'm tempted to say its because of xserver-xgl, so you're gonna test that out for me It can always be reinstalled of course. Please post the output of all of these commands exactly as they appear in your terminal.

Could you give a quick brief of what you're looking for so I know why I'm doing this if it happens again? Thanks again for the help

OK, it shows that you are using the restricted fglrx drivers for your card. Did you set these up yourself? A brief google search shows that this card probably should be using the fglrx drivers rather than the open source ones (which this thread is about, but that's ok). You should try using EnvyNG to download the correct restricted drivers for your card. You can follow directions here - http://albertomilone.com/envyngfaq.html#A

Earlier you said "/usr/local/bin/compiz: 409: /usr/local/bin/compiz.real: not found" as part of the compiz --replace output, which is strange because that is not where compiz is supposed to be. Hopefully installing the correct video drivers with EnvyNG will get you going, otherwise you may need to reinstall compiz itself.

Re: HowTo: Compiz Fusion in Hardy on cards with "ati"/"radeon" open source drivers

I already had Envy installed but read that I had to completely remove end install EnvyNG for Hardy, so I went ahead and did that. I then used EnvyNG to automatically install the ATI driver.
I then saw in another post that Compiz and all it's components must be completley removed and re-installed so I did that also.

I will try uninstalling Compiz and my driver again and reinstalling everything again to see if that makes any difference. Is it worth uninstalling other things such as AWN and Screenlets too, as these both rely on advance desktop settings being active?